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Rosy

I was looking for Lalah art today and I kept getting jumpscared by the big boobs on that pink-haired girl from Gundam SEED. She's very popular, isn't she? I never watched that show. I don't like the art style.

Anyway, I found this art that I had never seen before. I think Lalah and Rosamia would be good friends.

Lalah with Rosamia, Four and other Gundam girls. They're standing on a stage in front of a curtain.
#Lalah#Gundam#MobileSuitGundam
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Rosy

Thunder thigh mechs! Yay!

Watched Power Dolls. I found it on a list of mecha with girl/woman protagonists. It's an OVA with 2 half hour episodes. The first part was good, the second part was confusing and felt like the final episode of a much longer anime.

Woman with blonde hair and earrings saying, "However, the dolls' teamwork was perfect."
Redhead woman standing in the rain and saying, "This war took those kids' home!"
Women in green shirts getting lunch in a cafeteria. One is asking another, "Lieutenant Commander, were you able to sleep last night? Your eyes are red."
bipedal robot with fat thighs
#PowerDolls#mecha#anime
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Rosy

Tomino describes Lalah as looking like a bodhisattva two times in Awakening, one of his Gundam novels. Bodhisattvas are like Buddhist saints- people who have been liberated from samsara (the cycle of birth and death) but who choose to stay in this realm to help others.

When Amuro first meets Lalah, she is watching a whooper swan. In the TV version, the swan dies and she says, “Isn’t it sad to watch them grow old and perish?” In the movie version, the swan is fine, but Lalah still says, “I was thinking how sad it was that it will grow old and die someday.”

In Hinduism, the hamsa (swan or goose) is a symbol of moksha (liberation from samsara.) Lalah appears as a swan after she is killed because she has become a bodhisattva. She died, but she isn’t dead- she is totally outside the life/death cycle.

In Japan, the most popular bodhisattva is Kannon. Kannon was originally a male bodhisattva from India called Avalokiteshvara, but she is usually revered in female form in Japan. (She can take the form of any gender or species, depending on who she appears to.) They say Kannon was a holy woman about to go to the Pure Land (sort of like Heaven), but then she looked back at the Earth and saw all the suffering humans and animals. She decided she didn’t want to leave anyone behind and became a bodhisattva, watching over everyone and protecting them. Lalah’s desire to watch over Amuro and Sha seems Kannon-inspired, especially since Kannon is associated with soldiers and war victims.

I don’t actually like the Gundam novels - I think they’re boring at best - but reading them sometimes makes the anime click more… at least for me. I didn’t grow up with any exposure to Eastern spirituality so I didn’t notice any of this stuff the first time I watched. But the novels name-drop lots of Hindu and Buddhist concepts, and I know more about those faiths now, so it’s been very interesting to revisit everything with this extra context.

#Lalah#Gundam#FirstGundam
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Rosy

Lalah has a quiet demeanor and likes to watch swans and frolic outdoors. But she's also a highly skilled and violently protective war pilot.

There are multiple scenes of her asking to go out and fight, or to keep fighting, and Sha tells her to calm down and be more cautious.

It bothers me when some Gundam fans describe her as some clueless ingenue who gets forced into fighting against her will because that is literally the exact opposite of who she is and what's happening here!

Lalah floating down and saying, "I'm fine..."
Lalah standing in front of the Elmeth (a huge green mech) and smiling and saying, "I'll be ready for combat again in no time."
Sha smiling at Lalah and saying, "Lalah, if you get carried away in battle, it could cost you your life."
From another scene, Lalah telling Sha, "If I launch in the Elmeth right now, I can destroy the Gundam."
#Lalah#Gundam#FirstGundam
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